Wednesday night: Hell & Sante at McNally Jackson, Soho NYC

 

This just in from Richard Hell:

Tomorrow is the final reading/signing event I have scheduled for my new book Massive Pissed Love: Nonfiction 2001-2014 (the latest press for it is at Paper magazine).

At 7:00 PM tomorrow, Wed 18 Nov, Luc Sante - whose juicy, meticulous, and, as ever, piercingly put, new book is a study of the poor person's Paris, largely in the 19th century, entitled The Other Paris  - and I, will commence an evening comprising short readings by each of us, then a discussion with each other about our books, then a Q & A, then book signing.

The event takes place at McNally Jackson bookstore, 52 Prince St. in Manhattan. Their listing of it:

http://www.mcnallyjackson.com/event/mcnally-jackson-live-richard-hell-and-luc-sante.

Thursday night: Bowery Mission Women's Program Benefit / Mudd Club Rummage Sale

MUDD CLUB RUMMAGE SALE - BENEFITING THE WOMEN’S PROGRAM of THE BOWERY MISSION

Steve Mass by Kate Simon

Featuring famed treasures and priceless trash collected from an elite of couturiers, rock stars, artists, luminaries, bigwigs and significant somebodies

Thursday, November 19th

7:30 pm – 10:30pm

Roxy Hotel

2 Avenue of the Americas, New York City

Honorary Chair:

Steve Mass, a.k.a. Dr. Mudd

Co-Hosts:

Glenn O'Brien, Maripol & Paul Sevigny

Host Committee:

Victoria Bartlett, Richard Boch, Jeffrey Deitch, Phoebe Fitch, Eric Goode,

Kim Gordon, Deborah Harry, Kim Hastreiter, David Hershkovits, Pat Irwin

Daryl Kerrigan, Humberto Leon, Debi Mazar,

Patrick McMullan, Robert Molnar, Kate Pierson, Lisa Rosen, Lola Schnabel,

Kate Simon, Anna Sui, threeASFOUR & Linda Yablonsky

Tickets

Platinum Circle $200: 7:30 – 10:30

Entitles holder to 10% discount on all sale items. Live Music, Kate Pierson & Pat Irwin of B-52’s, Lenny Kaye of Patti Smith Group, special guests, Dance Music, Open Bar & Curated Hors D’oeuvres. Complimentary Entry to Backstage Hawaiian Love Shack Party on White Street, 10:30-2:00.

Gold Circle $100: 7:30 – 10:30

Live Music, Kate Pierson & Pat Irwin of B-52’s, Lenny Kaye, of Patti Smith Group, special guests, Dance Music, Open Bar & Curated Hors D’oeuvres.

Gold Circle ticket sales end 3pm November 18th.

CLICK EVENTBRITE LINK FOR TICKET OPTIONS

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/mudd-club-rummage-sale-event-benefitting-the-bowery-mission-womens-centers-tickets-19262318112

*$50 is the non-tax deductible portion of each ticket. Sale items are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Art Work & Items Donated from the Ateliers, and Attics of,

Agnes B

Allan Tannenbaum

Anna Sui

Brett De Palma

Bill Komoski

Bob Gruen

Bobby Grossman

Chris Stein

David Godlis

Deborah Harry

Dike Blair

Duncan Hannah

Eric Goode

Ericka Beckman

Pat Place

Maripol

Fred Schneider

George Dubose

Glenn O’Brien

Humberto Leon

Hunt Slonem

James Nares

Jeffrey Deitch

Izhar Patkin

Jim Jarmush

John Miller

Kate Pierson

Kate Simon

Keith Sonnier

Kim Gordon

Lisa Rosen

Lola Schnabel

Marc Jacobs

Jo Shane

Richard Boch

Patrick McMullan

Paul Sevigny

Phoebe Fitch

Ralph Pucci

Robert Molnar

Sally Gall

Steve Mass

Sting

Timothy Greenfield Sanders

Tom Otterness

Walter Robinson

William Coupon

Billy Sullivan

More names, more art, more rummage added everyday!

Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor RIP

Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor - RIP

Tonight In NYC: MARCIA RESNICK BOOK SIGNING PARTY

Tuesday, November 10th, 2015

6:30 - 8:30 PM

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project

6 East 1st Street

New York, NY 10003

Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project and Insight Editions invite you to meet punk legends photographer Marcia Resnick and writer Victor Bockris at a book signing, slide show, and reading from their new book:

Victor Bockris & Marcia Resnick, 1977

Punks, Poets, and Provocateurs : New York City Bad Boys 1977-1982

Photographs by Marcia Resnick

Text by Victor Bockris

Featuring rockers Joey Ramone, David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Mick Jagger; poets William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg and provocateurs John Waters, Andy Warhol and John Belushi among many other stars of drop-dead glamorous New York nights – presented here for your personal inspiration and pleasure.

Resnick's magnificent series of portraits of the cutting edge artists from three generations combined with Bockris' enlightened texts give us this first portrait of the beat punk age.

Be sure to join us for Marcia’s full exhibition at Howl! Happening this February.

News from the desk of Richard Boch: artist, writer and former Mudd Club doorman

As I continue work on my Mudd Club chronicles, an enduring labor of love, I find that history occasionally does repeat itself. November 2015, leaves are falling, and another chapter is writing itself; I'm once again working with Steve Mass! That's the short of it. From the offices of the Mudd Club Rummage Sale Host Committee, to benefit the Bowery Mission Women's Program, here's the rest:

Steve Mass, aka Dr. Mudd, the genius behind the legendary Mudd Club (1978-1983) where nightlife was truly an art form, quietly slipped out of New York at the turn of the millennium, when downtown was still in the shadow of the twin towers. He moved to Berlin. There things were, perhaps, more like the New York he loved than what New York has now become. And now, as suddenly as he vanished, he has reappeared to the joy of all Mudd graduates turning up in lower Manhattan on White Street just a few blocks from the legendary 77 White Street site of the Mudd Club. Steve is now back in town to have a huge birthday party/Bowery Mission Charity event.

It’s funny to see Steve, in many ways the ultimate New Yorker, visiting the city today. He’s like a tourist from another dimension, full of wonder and bemusement. His presence stands out as a magnificently preserved specimen from another time: a perfect prankster idealist hoping to make the world a better place and have fun doing it. During the late 70’s, early 80’s, the heyday of the Mudd Club, Steve was such a very generous host to the young creatives pouring into a then desolate Tribeca helping to facilitate a magical design laboratory where you could work and get by on very little money. The Mudd Club was THE creative epicenter. This contributed in no small way to today's boom in art, music and film. It is all part of the Mudd's legend and lore. At that time talented people didn’t need to have a full time day job to get by. Still it was difficult for many talented young people, especially women, who were changing the world against the odds. Steve recalls the greatness of the late Gia Carangi, Edwige Belmore, Tina L’Hotsky, Anya Phillips, Sara Charlesworth, Abbijane Schifrin, Anita Sarko and the difficulties they faced. And they were the successful ones.... although ultimately suffering tragically.

Today it is so much harder to eat, to keep a roof over one’s head in this city. It is not surprising that there are many college educated and once employed homeless in New York City. Now fortunately there is a program which sponsors vulnerable women at The Bowery Mission. Their Women’s Center provides residential private accommodation for women suffering from homelessness due to the many pitfalls of the city including domestic violence, addiction, financial exploitation, job loss, and health crises.Therefore we are asking for your help in reaching out to friends, Mudd Club members and habitues as well as their descendents and heirs and to ask them to participate in the MUDD CLUB RUMMAGE SALE.

As a friend of the Mudd Club we ask that you and your friends lovingly donate an historic work of art, photographs, couture treasures, accessories, memorabilia, designer sample and/or cultural curios (hopefully from the Mudd Club days but any period is acceptable) in memory of our youth, friends lost and the special lives we now live. In addition we are asking you to purchase tickets to the event and if possible make a donation to The Bowery Mission. 

Ticket sales:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mudd-club-rummage-sale-event-benefitting-the-bowery-mission-womens-centers-tickets-19262318112